A book of fables, you know the ones, I found it inside a cardboard box with many other books at a fleamarket, it had a turn of the century fabric book cover which intrigued me.
Under the fabric book cover (that was added at the turn of the century) the book dated 1803, a book of those famous fables.
Via Wiki:
"Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st-century CE philosopher, is recorded as having said about Aesop:
… like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events.
— Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14"
On the top corner of the book there is a monogram.
What a story this book could tell.
Printed in 1803-
With a monogram on the corner-
Not a rare book-
Small and very worn-
We never know where we will go, or how our story will turn, twist, run high, twirl, swirl and maybe rest is a box untold.
Some are page turners, some turn pages, some read between the lines and others are a closed book.
This one has a monogram on the top right corner.
Tell me something: A poem, a story, a word, an idea, a joke, a frustration, your last hiccup or movie you saw. I will pick someone and send them this book…
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